Reliability Assessment of Safety and Production Systems

Alain Leroy started his career in offshore engineering and was for ten years with the insurance industry. However, he has worked for most of his career in reliability engineering, focusing mainly on the implementation and use of novel approaches and techniques for assessing dependability parameters in the oil and gas industry. He has delivered courses on reliability at both basic and high levels.Jean-Pierre Signoret has been in charge of the research and development of methods and tools in reliability engineering, as well as of practical studies related to reliability modelling. He is still involved in the development of several international standards, including IEC and ISO, related to dependability, functional safety, reliability data collection, and production assurance. As a member of TPA, he gives short courses in various universities on this topic.

• Overview of the Book.- Introduction.- Background.- Reliability Study Overview.- Basic Core Concepts.- Introduction to Production Availability Calculations.- Introduction to SIL Calculations.- Risk Identification and Qualitative Analyses.- Inductive Methods.- Preliminary Hazard Analyses.- HAZOP.- FMECA.- Additional Methods.- Comparison of Inductive Approaches.- Modelling of Static Systems.- Boolean Methods.- Introduction to the Boolean Methods.- Main Assumptions and Mathematical Bases.- Reliability Block Diagrams.- Fault Tree Analysis.- Qualitative Analyses.- Extension to Non-coherent RBDs and FTs.- Basic Probability Calculations.- Semi-Quantitative Analysis.- Basic Probability Calculations for Large Systems.- Time Dependent Calculations.- Common Cause Failure Analysis.- Importance Factors.- Uncertainty Propagation.- Sequential Analysis.- Combination with Other Methods.- Belief Networks.- Limits and Conclusions.- Stochastic Processes and Dynamic Systems.- Introduction.- Markovian Modelling.- Monte-Carlo Calculations.- Petri Net Modelling.- Conclusions.- Production Availability and SIL Calculations.- Extension to Production Availability Calculations.- Extension to SIL Calculations.- Conclusion.